1 00:00:00,090 --> 00:00:04,670 - This is nicer than the keyboard I have at home and I'm not just saying that because ASUS sponsored us, 2 00:00:04,670 --> 00:00:09,630 covered this video on their new ROG Strix Flare II Animate. 3 00:00:09,630 --> 00:00:14,130 Let's check it out, inside the box you have a nice kind of one pager 4 00:00:14,130 --> 00:00:17,900 on how to attach the wrist rest, looks like it's a three step process 5 00:00:17,900 --> 00:00:24,320 more on that in a minute. In this cloth bag, which is really wanting to slip off, is the keyboard. 6 00:00:24,320 --> 00:00:28,150 Okay. It's a full size keyboard, got a nice 7 00:00:28,150 --> 00:00:31,650 thick yeah braided cable here, 8 00:00:31,650 --> 00:00:35,063 got two plugs, that's because there's a USB pass through on this puppy. 9 00:00:35,063 --> 00:00:38,540 Here's the wrist rest we were talking about something special about this puppy. 10 00:00:38,540 --> 00:00:41,179 Everything's a puppy today. (puppy barks) What else we got in here? 11 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:49,000 Literature, get outta here. Oh cool. We have a pretty funky design of a key cap puller 12 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:52,280 and a key switch cooler. 13 00:00:52,280 --> 00:00:56,730 So that means it's got hot-swappable key switches. Sometimes these things design can suck 14 00:00:56,730 --> 00:01:00,063 so I haven't seen this design myself before. Oh, look at that 15 00:01:00,063 --> 00:01:04,117 it even has like this little stem shaped notch on the top. Ga ga ga gamers. 16 00:01:05,450 --> 00:01:08,773 You take this stuff out. It's an ROG bag. Wow! 17 00:01:08,773 --> 00:01:12,050 My Robert De Niro face, by the way. Anyone can do it. You just raise your eyebrow, squint your eyes 18 00:01:12,050 --> 00:01:15,700 and then do this. Stickers for your hard hat or your case. 19 00:01:15,700 --> 00:01:19,350 Your car? - [Andy] Extra 690 horse power. 20 00:01:19,350 --> 00:01:23,340 - Extra frame for second on your car. Here's the board. It's a full size keyboard. 21 00:01:23,340 --> 00:01:26,930 Here's your number pad over here. You can tell this puppy wants to be RGB. 22 00:01:26,930 --> 00:01:32,760 I'm gonna plug it in already. There we go. As you can see it's RGB on all the keys. 23 00:01:32,760 --> 00:01:37,410 There's a diffuser down here and this is where this three step guide comes in. 24 00:01:37,410 --> 00:01:41,160 You actually take this off in order to 25 00:01:41,160 --> 00:01:45,230 put the wrist rest on. Oh, this is blinding now, look at it, it's all exposed. 26 00:01:45,230 --> 00:01:49,280 Nude. Does this just pass through? It almost looks like there's like this 27 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,960 diffuser acrylic here. And then on the side that faces you as well. 28 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:58,220 So I'm wondering if they just shine right through. You can see it like getting brighter. 29 00:01:58,220 --> 00:02:01,270 It really, it just passes through. They could have made it 30 00:02:01,270 --> 00:02:05,010 so that they only gave you one of these and the wrist rest didn't have it. 31 00:02:05,010 --> 00:02:09,030 You have to take it off here and plug it into here, but they didn't do that. You can just have a spare. 32 00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:11,880 And I think this would be really good in the locker room. 33 00:02:13,290 --> 00:02:16,603 Ha! Can you screw this up? Oh God. 34 00:02:16,603 --> 00:02:20,090 (chuckles) See the angle? This is cut that way. 35 00:02:20,090 --> 00:02:23,283 That's cut that way. It is meant to go this way. This one way. 36 00:02:23,283 --> 00:02:26,333 Yeah, that's better. Let's see if it falls down now. It does. 37 00:02:26,333 --> 00:02:29,350 That's a lot of force. The thing is pretty heavy. Can I get a scale? 38 00:02:29,350 --> 00:02:33,570 Two pounds, six ounces. What does that mean? 39 00:02:33,570 --> 00:02:37,470 Mode. Wow, it's over a kilogram. That's a, that's where you want to be at least. 40 00:02:37,470 --> 00:02:41,030 It doesn't shift. You're bodying me out into like bedrock. 41 00:02:41,030 --> 00:02:45,270 When it, the heavier it is, it just feels better. Cool. We have an aluminum face plate. 42 00:02:45,270 --> 00:02:49,670 Like this thing doesn't flex almost at all. It's got this cool LE thing. 43 00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:54,120 Did it just flicker? Yeah, it did. Apparently you can load this up with different designs. 44 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:59,930 It can even be an audio equalizer. It can even give you a CPU, I think status, 45 00:02:59,930 --> 00:03:04,290 another computer stats. There's also some feet. I actually have a nice click in. 46 00:03:04,290 --> 00:03:09,490 Lots of rubber pads for non skid. And it's got that wash board, hillbilly instrument 47 00:03:09,490 --> 00:03:13,950 kind of quality intuitive if you want to join the band, then you got some 48 00:03:13,950 --> 00:03:19,430 media buttons up here that are pretty intuitive on the side. You probably didn't see this coming, Andy 49 00:03:19,430 --> 00:03:22,950 but you can actually click this side. Let's play and pause. 50 00:03:22,950 --> 00:03:27,720 This is forward and back on your media. And then this that's a ratcheted volume knob 51 00:03:27,720 --> 00:03:31,130 or I think you can assign that to other stuff. We're gonna try that later. 52 00:03:31,130 --> 00:03:34,840 And then there's these puppies, what do these do? Oh, it's brightness. Look at the steps here, this off 53 00:03:34,840 --> 00:03:38,580 and then there's 1, 2, 3, 4 steps of brightness. 54 00:03:38,580 --> 00:03:43,880 You can also do macro recording right on the fly. All you do is function alt. 55 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:48,940 Now I'm in the macro recording sequence and I can go James function alt again, 56 00:03:48,940 --> 00:03:52,520 and now I choose the letter or the key that makes that macro happen. 57 00:03:52,520 --> 00:03:56,010 I'm gonna choose this plus button, but that's that's pretty easy. 58 00:03:56,010 --> 00:03:59,080 What else, about how about the switches? So these are not Cherry MX brown scissor. 59 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:02,700 The ASUS NX browns. The N stands for new. 60 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:07,210 They also have available blues and reds. Although we thought we had reds on here 61 00:04:07,210 --> 00:04:10,357 the red ones are speedy. They're linear they're for gamers. 62 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:14,850 Unfortunately we don't have any here today but I can test with the browns for you. 63 00:04:17,750 --> 00:04:22,430 Sometimes you hear at the end, if you listen close so you can hear like the decay of a keystroke 64 00:04:22,430 --> 00:04:25,530 and it'll be like a springy bounce around in your ear, 65 00:04:25,530 --> 00:04:29,500 kinda like bang. And this doesn't have that really at all. 66 00:04:29,500 --> 00:04:32,550 According to the marketing materials it's because they have this foam underneath 67 00:04:32,550 --> 00:04:35,873 that is supposed to be absorbing those higher frequencies. So that's pretty cool 68 00:04:35,873 --> 00:04:41,450 that you can actually see it in this cutaway here. It's a nice sound. You're not gonna get in trouble at work for this sound wise. 69 00:04:41,450 --> 00:04:44,570 This still is satisfying. Man that's fast. 70 00:04:44,570 --> 00:04:48,640 Look at that thing. You can pay respects fast. 71 00:04:48,640 --> 00:04:52,500 There's actually a stabilizer under here. Do these click in on either side of that. 72 00:04:52,500 --> 00:04:55,700 It really doesn't rock very much. Like I feel like I'm actuating it 73 00:04:55,700 --> 00:05:00,700 just as well there as here. That's right in, that came out with very little force. 74 00:05:00,700 --> 00:05:03,940 Some key keyboards, man I remember I did this key switch challenge 75 00:05:03,940 --> 00:05:07,500 for LTT where we did so many keyboards. I was like getting bruises, 76 00:05:07,500 --> 00:05:11,000 like pulling, went through multiple of these. That just came out real nice and easy. 77 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:14,690 So, okay, even though this is a proprietary ASUS switch 78 00:05:14,690 --> 00:05:18,610 this board is compatible with third party switches but there you have it. 79 00:05:18,610 --> 00:05:23,250 You can just swap out whatever, they have blues, reds and brown equivalence 80 00:05:23,250 --> 00:05:27,160 from their own NX line. And you can see all the different actuation forces. 81 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,653 They put a lot of effort into them to make them feel very uniform. 82 00:05:31,620 --> 00:05:34,778 I think they did a good job. I do have the blues. 83 00:05:34,778 --> 00:05:39,190 This would actually be my preference. I do use browns that work just so they're not as loud 84 00:05:39,190 --> 00:05:43,920 but these are a nice light blue. (clicking) 85 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:48,400 That's the difference right there bringing blue and brown. (clicking) 86 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:52,160 Now, these are compatible, again with any key caps you get as well. 87 00:05:52,160 --> 00:05:53,963 Oh, let's try this puppy while we're at. 88 00:05:55,494 --> 00:05:58,530 It can actually remap all of the keys except for function and shift. 89 00:05:58,530 --> 00:06:02,570 Every other key you can remap. The legend is kind of a standard ROG legend. 90 00:06:02,570 --> 00:06:07,510 It's pretty straight ahead. Doesn't look too gamery except for I would say maybe the D and the eight. 91 00:06:07,510 --> 00:06:11,670 They look, maybe the six have a little more sci-fi edge to them. 92 00:06:11,670 --> 00:06:15,380 I don't think it's like gamery looking to a off putting degree. 93 00:06:15,380 --> 00:06:18,950 Like if I bought this for my non gamer wife she still think it was cool. 94 00:06:18,950 --> 00:06:22,260 In fact, maybe I should, because the one I have at home is obnoxious. 95 00:06:22,260 --> 00:06:25,290 (laughing) It's an earlier RGB one. 96 00:06:25,290 --> 00:06:31,573 It doesn't have a diffused light like this and I wanna see the different, oh, what is this telling me? 97 00:06:33,720 --> 00:06:39,680 It just looks a little more subtle than the one that I got going at home. This a pretty plushy wrist breast. 98 00:06:39,680 --> 00:06:43,850 Unless you got real heavy arms, I don't think you're gonna be bodying out on it. 99 00:06:43,850 --> 00:06:46,483 That's cool. We'll do a quick typing test here. 100 00:06:47,610 --> 00:06:51,150 Couple of mistakes, but I actually type with a Don standard 101 00:06:51,150 --> 00:06:55,540 on Cordy keyboard, a keyboard on my desk. So I'm gonna make some mistakes regardless. 102 00:06:55,540 --> 00:06:59,670 I feel like I could get up to speed on this pretty quickly. It's pretty intuitive. 103 00:06:59,670 --> 00:07:02,870 All right, here we go. We're in armory create, this is the keyboard section. 104 00:07:02,870 --> 00:07:07,090 There's actually a bunch of subsections. You've got, I guess the general keyboard settings, 105 00:07:07,090 --> 00:07:10,560 then the anime, 106 00:07:10,560 --> 00:07:14,830 anime matrix, which is just this led dot thing up here. 107 00:07:14,830 --> 00:07:18,950 And there's a macro section. So let's start with just the general, oh, you must update. 108 00:07:18,950 --> 00:07:22,814 Raise your glasses, whip your a. All right, here we are. 109 00:07:22,814 --> 00:07:28,260 Ooh! I'm gonna select the F key. Oh man, I can change the function of it and everything. 110 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:31,510 Geez. You can also, it looks like remap all of these media keys. 111 00:07:31,510 --> 00:07:35,260 So let's see what kinda options we get for this play and pause button on the side. 112 00:07:35,260 --> 00:07:38,980 Oh wow, it's, it's full on. You can make it launch a website or an application. 113 00:07:38,980 --> 00:07:42,130 You can make it be the right click if you want it. 114 00:07:42,130 --> 00:07:47,980 And I think that applies to everything. The direction of this toggle button up 115 00:07:47,980 --> 00:07:51,330 can be a thing, which is separate from it being down. 116 00:07:51,330 --> 00:07:54,620 And that also applies to scrolling this wheel up and down. 117 00:07:54,620 --> 00:07:57,800 And what is this? Is this a, you, it's a button. 118 00:07:57,800 --> 00:08:01,050 You can click this. And right now that's set to mute by default. 119 00:08:01,050 --> 00:08:06,050 You could launch like a bunch of programs with these for some stupid reason if you wanted to. 120 00:08:06,050 --> 00:08:11,250 I had my secret puppy hub button. (barking) Now what? These hot key keys though. 121 00:08:11,250 --> 00:08:14,433 Game mode, preference, disable alt and tab. Whoa! 122 00:08:14,433 --> 00:08:18,340 Disable alt F 4? Come on. And then there's some tabs up here. 123 00:08:18,340 --> 00:08:22,810 Lighting, here we go. You can see all the different effects that we recycling through on the keyboard. 124 00:08:22,810 --> 00:08:27,680 This is aura sync compatible obviously, it's ASUS. So you can have this synced up with your motherboard lights, 125 00:08:27,680 --> 00:08:33,910 your GPU, whatever other, or a sync compatible product you may have in your ecosystem. 126 00:08:33,910 --> 00:08:37,650 What's on the performance tab? You can actually specify the polling rate 127 00:08:37,650 --> 00:08:41,060 of the keyboard from 1000 up to 8000 Hertz. 128 00:08:41,060 --> 00:08:45,130 And they say that the input lag of it is 0.125 millisecond, 129 00:08:45,130 --> 00:08:48,690 just over a 10th of a millisecond. Good enough for me and my gamer chops. 130 00:08:48,690 --> 00:08:52,030 Okay, here's the animatrix. This is what I'm calling it. 131 00:08:52,030 --> 00:08:56,390 You can just turn it off if you hate it. And then there's a content library. 132 00:08:56,390 --> 00:08:59,536 I got a meteorite thing. If I apply that. 133 00:08:59,536 --> 00:09:02,550 (gunshots mimics) I see you. 134 00:09:02,550 --> 00:09:06,240 I'm feeling loverly today. (heartbeat mimics) 135 00:09:06,240 --> 00:09:09,300 Oh, and you can actually change the brightness of it. Let's put this down to 25%. 136 00:09:09,300 --> 00:09:14,090 I'm really glad they included that. That's sweet, 'cause in a really dark room, it could be overwhelming. 137 00:09:14,090 --> 00:09:18,160 Can I edit, edit effect? Yeah, we've gotta be able to put the Linus face on here, 138 00:09:18,160 --> 00:09:21,200 right? (laughter) Drag an image from your content library, 139 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:26,030 library or press insert image to begin. This is Halloween. 140 00:09:26,030 --> 00:09:29,833 Okay, you can change the scale of it. Can I drag it around? Oh my God. 141 00:09:29,833 --> 00:09:33,000 They made it so useful. The interface is really quite good. 142 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:38,053 I'm just gonna apply it and see what happens. Oh my God! (laughing) 143 00:09:38,053 --> 00:09:42,190 That's so sweet. This is like a meme Lord's keyboard. Man imagine you were a streamer 144 00:09:42,190 --> 00:09:47,450 and you had a camera on your mouse but then also this little meme face was in the shot. 145 00:09:47,450 --> 00:09:51,880 That'd be awesome. Oh, there's like slots. I can add a second meme and then make them loop. 146 00:09:51,880 --> 00:09:56,280 You can make like a video happen through this. This is gonna be like one of those things 20 years from now 147 00:09:56,280 --> 00:09:59,650 there's like an enthusiast retro community about tweaking with these. 148 00:09:59,650 --> 00:10:03,610 That's awesome. We've gotten to the point now where the big brands are really closing in 149 00:10:03,610 --> 00:10:07,233 even on what the enthusiast market has been doing for a few years. 150 00:10:07,233 --> 00:10:12,030 Like now that you have the hot swappable key switches you can, you can put any enthusiast switch you want on it. 151 00:10:12,030 --> 00:10:15,420 If you don't like what it comes with, you've got features 152 00:10:15,420 --> 00:10:20,260 that you just can't even get anywhere else. These are getting good. Now it's 219.99. 153 00:10:20,260 --> 00:10:27,370 You get what you pay for. I like it. This is not a review but I've told you the features seems 100% not bad. 154 00:10:27,370 --> 00:10:31,730 So thanks for watching "ShortCircuit" today. If you like this keyboard check with the link below where you can 155 00:10:31,730 --> 00:10:35,940 check it out more and then just keep checking it out until your hands are checking it out.